OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion

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Overview

The world is more branded than ever before: Americans encounter anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 ads a day, and increasingly brands vie for our attention from insidious angles that target our emotional responses (scent, taste, sound, and touch). In an ever-faster, more competitive global landscape, branding, or identity-making, has begun to replace the research and development of yore.

From the fertile crescent of branding (Cincinnati) to the laboratories of sensory specialists (musicologists, and "noses”), Lucas Conley investigates the phenomenon of rampant commercialism (often backed by little substance), offering an illuminating portrait of an age of ...

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Overview

The world is more branded than ever before: Americans encounter anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 ads a day, and increasingly brands vie for our attention from insidious angles that target our emotional responses (scent, taste, sound, and touch). In an ever-faster, more competitive global landscape, branding, or identity-making, has begun to replace the research and development of yore.

From the fertile crescent of branding (Cincinnati) to the laboratories of sensory specialists (musicologists, and "noses”), Lucas Conley investigates the phenomenon of rampant commercialism (often backed by little substance), offering an illuminating portrait of an age of obsession.

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Journalist Conley examines the implications of brand-centric marketing in an incisive investigation that illustrates how defenseless consumers are against advertising-on any given day, they are assaulted by 3,000 to 5,000 ads and branding stratagems that subtly dictate every aspect of their lives. Harnessing scientific innovations, branding has become increasing insidious-whether it is the Xbox audio logo or Southwest Airlines' incorporation of the "fasten seatbelt" sound in their marketing campaign-consumers are being conditioned to think in brands. Beyond ad creep and product placement in entertainment programming, viral and word of mouth (WOM) marketing now make even personal recommendations suspect. According to Conley, 1% of American children and 7% of mothers are compensated for participating in WOM marketing. Even social policy is being corrupted-the author asserts that public branding initiatives such as post-Katrina New Orleans' allocation of public funds toward refurbishing its Mardi Gras City image rather than addressing its safety issues shifts resources away from problem-solving in favor of perception. Conley's perspective on branding's encroachment into social areas is as alarming as it is stimulating. (June)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781586484682
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Publication date: 6/2/2008
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 705,395
  • Product dimensions: 5.76 (w) x 8.48 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Meet the Author

Lucas Conley, who began his career at The Atlantic Monthly, is a contributing writer for Fast Company. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and ESPN: The Magazine, among other publications. Obsessive Branding Disorder is his first book. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Loyalty beyond reason 1

1 A branding company town 13

2 Feeding the monster 43

3 Buying our way into being 67

4 Ad creep 91

5 Poisoning the grapevine 111

6 Invisible branding 131

7 Getting inside our heads 151

8 Getting personal 175

9 The future of an illusion 195

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  • Posted January 20, 2009

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    Interesting Information - Lacked explanation.

    I was very intrigued by this book - hell, I read it in one day. However, many of the facts that Conley mentions in OBD are simply just mentioned and not explained. Conley mentions subconscious advertising and the arrow in the FedEx symbol that EVERYONE knows about, right? Wrong. Luckily, I learned about the arrow subtly interjected into the FedEx logo between the E and the x. I learned about this my senior year of high school, but today, as a college senior, many people are ASTONISHED to learn about that type of subconscious branding and logos. This is just one example of Conley's vagueness.

    When looking at the information, this book is great. Conley does a great job of showing how a brand infiltrates every aspect of our lives - from our personal mission statement and objective, to our city's logo. Its crazy.

    A great, re-enforcing read for those with a background. Slightly confusing without one.

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